Month March 2021

Nearly 75 Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbonim in Lakewood issued a Kol Koreh, Tuesday morning, banning the sale and use of marijuana. The Kol Koreh comes just as the State of New Jersey legalized the use of the drug. The Kol… Continue Reading →

China has approved another COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, adding a fifth shot to its arsenal. The announcement came from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Microbiology. The vaccine… Read more » The post China Approves Fifth Vaccine for… Continue Reading →

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended the U.S. response to a surge of unaccompanied children seeking to enter the United States at the southwest border on Tuesday, saying the region… Read more » The post U.S. Defends Response to Child… Continue Reading →

A Virgin Atlantic flight traveling from London to Tel Aviv was forced to land in Heathrow airport, London, on Tuesday, when lasers were aimed at its cockpit. The airline has… Read more » The post Laser Aimed at Cockpit Forces… Continue Reading →

The man who blew himself up inside his recreational vehicle in a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was grappling with paranoia and eccentric conspiracy theories, but there are no indications he was motivated by social or political ideology, the FBI… Continue Reading →

A Russian newspaper that has exposed official corruption and human rights abuses urged Moscow city authorities on Tuesday to investigate what it said was an attack on its offices with… Read more » The post Russian Newspaper Seeks Investigation Into… Continue Reading →

The French government announced Monday that it will return a Nazi-looted Gustav Klimt landscape painting to its rightful owners more than 80 years after it was stolen from a Jewish family in Austria in 1938. The colorful 1905 oil work… Continue Reading →

IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM CHAIM V’CHESSED: This morning, the Igud, headed by the indefatigable Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz, received word from Interior Ministry officials regarding the return of students after Pesach. If there is no change, it appears that students who have been… Continue Reading →

The Yeshiva & Seminary Coalition for Bnei Chul (Igud) has just been informed by Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority that all students that have been in Israel this year who are vaccinated or have recovered from COVID-9 who went home… Continue Reading →

Britain’s Prince Philip left a London hospital on Tuesday after being treated for an infection and undergoing a heart procedure. Philip, 99, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, had been… Read more » The post Britain’s Prince Philip Leaves Hospital… Continue Reading →

Only three months after the start of Israel’s vaccination campaign, when Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv had six full coronavirus wards, including two intensive care units, the hospital closed its last virus ward on Monday. The remaining 18 coronavirus patients… Continue Reading →

Reb Aaron Yochanan Fleishman, z”l, was niftar Tuesday following a long illness. He was born in Williamsburg in 1948, where his family were pillars of the Viener kehillah. His maternal… Read more » The post BD”E: R’ Aaron Yochanan Fleishman,… Continue Reading →

Moderna Inc. Tuesday announced that the first participants have been dosed in the Phase 2/3 study, called the KidCOVE study, of mRNA-1273, the Company’s vaccine candidate against COVID-19, in children… Read more » The post Moderna Announces First Pediatric Phase… Continue Reading →

As Israel’s economy reopens on the background of a plummeting national infection rate following a successful vaccination campaign, the question is how long will the effect of the vaccines last? Officially, the vaccine certificate is valid for six months. Earlier… Continue Reading →

Dozens of Yemeni protesters stormed a presidential palace in the southern port city of Aden on Tuesday demanding payment of public sector salaries, witnesses said. Yemen’s Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik… Read more » The post Yemeni Protesters Storm Palace With… Continue Reading →

A New York-based brand management firm that already owns Anne Klein and Joseph Abboud is taking a controlling stake in the parent company of the iconic Toys R Us and Babies R Us brands. Yehuda Shmidman, co-founder, chairman and CEO… Continue Reading →

​The Finance Committee, chaired by MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, approved on Tuesday the allocation of NIS 1.973 billion to the Health Ministry as part of the budget for dealing with… Read more » The post Israel COVID Vaccine Cost Revealed:… Continue Reading →

Sweden on Tuesday became the latest country to pause use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as European regulators review safety data following reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients. The… Read more » The post Sweden Is Latest Country to… Continue Reading →

Activity by the U.S. Navy in its campaign to challenge China’s efforts to restrict transit in the South China Sea and in the Taiwan Strait increased sharply over the past two years. According to U.S. Navy data, war ships maneuvered… Continue Reading →